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Title: | Characterizing the relative significance of a test smell | Authors: | VAN ROMPAEY, Bart du Bois, Bart Demeyer, Serge |
Issue Date: | 2006 | Publisher: | s.l. IEEE Computer Society 2006 | Source: | Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2006), September 2006. p. 391-400 | Abstract: | Test code, just like any other code we write, erodes when frequently changed. As such, refactoring, which has been shown to impact maintainability and comprehensibility, can be part of a solution to counter this erosion. We propose a metric-based heuristical approach, which allows to rank occurrences of so-called test smells (i.e. symptoms of poorly designed tests) according to their relative significance. This ranking can subsequently be used to start refactoring. Through an open-source case study, ArgoUML, we demonstrate that we are able to identify those test cases who violate unit test criteria. | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/6867 | DOI: | 10.1109/ICSM.2006.18 | Category: | A3 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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